Paul Hübner

Paul Hübner studied trumpet with Malte Burba and Mike Svoboda. He is a prizewinner and scholarship holder of numerous national and international competitions and programmes, including Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, the Ensemblia-Kompositionswettbewerb (Ensemblia Composition Competition), the Krakow International Festival of Composers and the Stockhausen Courses Kürten. He has also been a scholarship holder of the Zukunftsinitiative Rheinland-Pfalz (ZIRP) and a fellow of the International Ensemble Modern Academy (2009/10).

As an interpreter, composer, improviser and performer, he is particularly devoted to new and experimental music, presenting concerts and projects both in Germany and internationally. He appears as a soloist as well as in a wide range of chamber‑music and ensemble formations at festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, Kunstfest Weimar, the Munich Biennale, Warsaw Autumn, musica viva and Ultraschall Berlin.

He has performed, among others, with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks , at the Lucerne Festival Academy, and with Ensemble Modern, the oh ton‑Ensemble, Ensemble Phoenix Munich, Zinc & Copper and l’art pour l’art, as well as in his own formations 3® and MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik.

In 2016, he took on the role of Michael in the Basel revival of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s opera Donnerstag aus Licht. His work also includes close collaboration with composers of his generation in the creation of new works for an extensive (brass) instrumental spectrum, as well as the exploration of new concepts in his own compositions and improvisations. Numerous world and first performances testify to this activity. He has premiered works by Peter Ablinger, Adriana Hölszky, Dmitri Kourliandski, Julio Estrada, Michael Maierhof, Jagoda Szmytka and many others.

His comprehensive handbook on experimental playing techniques for brass instruments was published in 2016 by Breitkopf & Härtel.